All right, my name's Alistair, and I'm saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.
I started my life with my family.
I grew up in the Baptist Union Church.
I didn't really understand a lot of it.
My parents didn't really go there too much.
I think they had problems at that church.
When everyone asked me, I always just said I was Baptist, but I didn't really understand
what that meant.
I just lived a life playing video games and sports.
I always believed that there was a God, and He was real, but I had no understanding
that there was a salvation, and I had a need to be saved.
I always thought that I was a pretty good person, and I only thought really bad people
go to hell.
I thought if I did something really bad, then I would go to hell, but God would be
leaning it towards me.
Basically, at the start of 2014, someone gave me a Jack Chick track called This Was
Your Life.
I read that, and I started to actually fear God about standing before Him and the judgment
of how I live my life.
I started thinking, maybe I'm not that good.
Maybe He will send me to hell, and I didn't want to go to hell, but the bad thing is
that track preached the wrong gospel.
It said I had to repent and surrender my life to Jesus Christ, acknowledge that He
died for my sins, and receive Him as my Savior.
Now I thought Jesus Christ died for all my sins in the past, but now I had a new
life that I had to make sure I lived right and I had to be worthy to make it into
heaven.
I was believing a wrong gospel.
That's what I had there, and I thought I had to live that life to get to heaven.
After that, I got into the Jack Chick stuff.
I didn't really like reading at the time, so I got one of those Jack Chick Bibles that
are like the pictures, and you can read through it.
I started reading that and learning about the Bible through the stories of it, because
I didn't really grow up learning about the Bible stories of all David and Goliath
and stuff.
It was all new to me when I got into it.
I also started visiting different churches.
I went to 10 different churches, the Baptist Church, went to Christ Church, Pentecostal
Church.
I found out a lot of them.
No one asked me about my salvation.
I thought I was saved, though, because I was on this path to repenting of my sins and
living a good life.
No one asked me about salvation.
Basically, a lot of people seemed fake, and it was all like a social club.
I didn't really feel like there was anything worth going there.
I could change my life doing anything in that church.
I started turning to YouTube trying to find someone who could actually teach the Bible
and someone who actually believed the Bible.
When I was on YouTube, I came across a number of different people, Paul Washer, Ray Comfort,
a whole bunch of Pentecostal people rolling around on the floor.
I was like, what is this stuff?
I just wanted to find something that could just teach me the Bible because I just wanted
to learn the Bible, but they were just doing this weird stuff.
I was getting frustrated with all that stuff.
One day, because I thought I was saved, I just prayed to God.
Just leave me to someone I can learn on YouTube, just someone who actually believes
the Bible, someone that's real, someone who can just teach me and I can learn.
I ended up finding Pastor Roger Jimenez preaching the Bible way to heaven.
I listened to that little 10-minute clip, believed it, called upon the name of the
Lord.
I believe I got saved at that point listening to that.
I wasn't fully grown.
I was just only a babe in Christ then, so I believed that.
Afterwards, I found Pastor Steven Anderson online preaching the Revelation series.
I was like, oh, great.
Look, I can actually learn the Bible.
He was going chapter by chapter.
I thought, oh, God answered my prayer.
This is great.
Then I got to a point when I started questioning, is it really this simple?
Is salvation really that easy going to heaven?
I thought, instead of listening to these people, I'm going to actually just read the
New Testament for myself and see if I come to that conclusion.
I started reading the New Testament.
I got to a couple of verses that jumped out at me.
One was in 1 Timothy 3.16, and it says, and without controversy, great is the mystery
of godliness.
God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto
the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
I never knew that Jesus Christ was God.
I always believed he was the Son of God, didn't have the full understanding.
Saw that verse, and I was like, oh, wow, Jesus Christ is God, and he came and died
on the cross for me.
Then I linked it up when I was reading that Jack Chick comic about the blood of Jesus
Christ.
I was thinking about the Passover.
Then I was thinking about that Jack Chick track, how it said he's going to judge
me and review me of my life and how I live my life.
Then I felt bored about the blood, and I thought that verse, and it says, when
I see the blood, I will pass over you.
When I saw that, it was just like, it really is.
It really is that easy.
Jesus Christ paid for all my sins.
They're all gone.
I don't have to pay for any of them.
It's really that easy.
Then I was still a little bit questioning, is it really that easy, because there's a lot of
sins in this world.
I didn't want to get deceived, but it was when I got to this verse in 2 Corinthians
11, 3, that just sealed the deal, and said, but I fear less by any means as the
serpent beguiled Eve for his subtlety, so your mind should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.
When I saw that, I was like, salvation is simple.
It's saying it's simple right here.
If I want to trust something else, then it's like the devil trying to deceive people,
saying, ye have God said.
Basically, I fought back to the Garden of Eden when they said, oh, you have to eat from this
tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Basically, it was easy to sin there, and now it's like the solution is Jesus Christ.
Do you want that solution?
Not long after that, I stumbled across Steve Nansen preaching, once saved, always
saved.
I was like, yep, how can I deny this?
That's what the truth is.
Basically, from that, I come away thinking, how many other people in the world are like
me and actually believe that?
That's what got me into soul winning as well, and then just realizing that I'm only
a sinner saved by grace.